by Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904)
Fair goes the dancing when the sitar's...
Language: English
Fair goes the dancing when the sitar's tuned; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high, And we will dance away the hearts of men. The string overstretched breaks, and the music flies ; The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies ; Tune us the sitar neither low nor high.
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- by Edwin Arnold (1832 - 1904), no title, appears in The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation (Mahâbhinishkramana), being the Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism (As told in Verse by an Indian Buddhist), Book the Sixth, p. 145 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marion Eugénie Bauer (1882 - 1955), "Orientale" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-05
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Word count: 49